Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

hentrep 202 points 65 comments August 28, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (12 comments)

orangea

what is "PCC"?

boredatoms

Is this what apple does in xcode?

ironqcold

Interesting project. If it actually works it opens up a ton of possibilities for testing and reverse engineering.

TylerJaacks

This project is really cool its a shame you have to disable or partial disable SIP which can break some things.

chews

What a release! Congrats to the builder, lots of great work done here and in IOS profiling in general has been done here recently. Corellium went research only and I lost the ability to actually profile my applications the way I'd like. I've got a fun thing over coffee in the morning!

root9876

> during iOS setup, don't pick Japan or the EU as your region (extra regulatory checks the VM can't satisfy) I'm curious what are these checks

hamandcheese

This seams neat, but I'm not sure I understand the purpose/difference between this and using the iOS simulator.

leoh

Will Apple break this?

dvduval

Will there ever be a day where I could run this on a PC or something like it?

catlifeonmars

Does this include a virtual baseband?

senor_digimon

Can this be used for account recovery?

leke

Can this be used to test the phone's browser on localhost?

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